private Door to Vehiculia (Part 1)

[Aureity 3,055]

"Hey, look, it's alive," said Rainbow Dash, pointing at the unconscious pony with some degree of triumph. "Wake UP, you're here in Ponyville!" She waited vainly for a response, growing more and more impatient, until she finally glanced in exasperation at the other two ponies. "There's nothing more that we can do," she grumbled. "I'm not going to stay here and babysit someone even lazier than I am. I have a nap to make up."

 

Applejack watched as Dash took off from the ground, spiraling twice before zooming off towards where Applejack assumed Cloudsdale would be, before she bowed her head. "Err...ah have to go, too," she muttered apologetically to Twilight, shifting uncomfortably on her right front hoof. "It's apple-pickin' season, and ah have ta help out on the farm..." she trailed off as Twilight gave a tired nod and sat down to wait for the pony to wake up.

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The impact was enough to wake the pegasus colt up. "What the--?! Erm..." Rip Tide looks around. "Wow, where am I? And why am I having a wicked headache?" he asks to himself, not remembering where he was, despite that he was in Ponyville, and rubbing his head, trying to remember what has happened.

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"Oh, good, you're awake," said Twilight Sparkle in relief. "Everyone else has already left. You're in Ponyville," she added to the pegasus now looking around the area. "We - that is to say, Dash, AJ and I - found you unconscious, and dragged you here where you'd be safer. Are you feeling quite alright?"

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"Yeah. Just completely tired, nothing serious, besides having the weirdest dream in all of Equestria, like, ponies who look metal..ish, with wheels instead of hooves and Ponyville looks lie from the future and whatnot, and the cutie marks almost look like your pals. Well, that until that shadow thing went after me, which is really weird, if you ask me." Rip Tide finishes explaining to Twilight before making an introduction, "Name's Rip Tide, by the way, and I would say "the colt with the 'tude", though I'm too gosh darn tired right now. And yes, I'm a newpony in Cloudsdale."

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"Great," said Twilight. "Sounds somewhat like those strange machines AJ and Dash raced once." She glanced up into the sky, squinting a little in the bright sunlight. Cloudsdale was just barely visibly amidst a patch of low-lying clouds. "Can you make it back up there?"

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Fluttershy crept gently back into her cottage, looking around for the present that she had placed on the counter earlier. "Where did I put it...?" she wondered to herself, before finally spotting it, still encased in its original package, lying amongst a few discarded books on herblore. "Oh!" Fluttering gently to the spot, she carefully grabbed the present, a large milk-chocolate pony. "Here we go," she said happily. "Angel, could you please bring me some wrapping paper...?"

 

With Angel's help, Fluttershy had the chocolate wrapped up in sparkly blue wrapping paper and tied with a bright red bow. She stepped back to admire their work. "Yes, this will work. Thank you, Angel..." She turned and headed out the doorway with the present in her hooves. "Now, which way was Canterlot?" She looked perplexedly over the horizon, before realizing that she was facing the wrong way.

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"Yup. I think I can, even though I'm only..." Rip Tide pauses as he yawns. "sleepy. Well, catch ya later!" "He flies off with significant speed to return to Cloudsdale, not being able to know Twilight's name due to his tiredness.

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Fluttershy eagerly set off for Canterlot, humming a happy tune as she went, the present still clutched in her hooves. The wind was kind today, and gently pushed her along the way. Flutershy barely had to exert any effort at all when she finally arrived, with a gentle thud, in the main square of Canterlot, tripping a little in her eagerness to finally have solid ground beneath her hooves. Almost at once, her eagerness vanished in thin air, and she cowed a little, intimidated by the rush of high-class nobility making their way through the city.

 

With some hesitation, she made her way back into the alley where she had first met the two strange ponies and their machine, and gently knocked on the hoor, heart hammering.

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Techie wakes up, but barely, as he heard a knock on the door "Ugh, why did the bed felt hard as a ground?" Techie looks down and sees that he was sleeping on the floor. "Huh. I don't remember sleeping on a cold, hard floor." Techie said with much confusion as he groggily heads to the door. "I bet it's Rip Tide..." he opens the door, but with his vision temporarily blurred, he doesn't know that it is Fluttershy at the door. "Hey, listen Rip Tide, sorry for the attitude I gave you. I know it was harsh, but..." Techie stops for a moment as he regains his vision, realizing that it was not Rip Tide, but rather, Fluttershy. "...Oh, um, sorry if I mislead you for my friend Rip Tide." Techie chuckles with embarrassment. "And I assume you're the same ponyfolk that decided to take a visit here, right? If that's the case, then forgive me for my lack of introduction. I'm Techie, a college student in Canterlot, and you must be?" he asks Fluttershy.

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"I-I just came to give you a present," said Fluttershy quietly. "Since I, um...went into your house uninvited and everything.

"She handed over the colorfully-wrapped package with a trembling hoof, just barely managing to keep her fright in check as she placed it in his hooves.

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Techie looks at the colorfully-wrapped package that was given by Fluttershy. he uses magic from his horn to pick it up and smiles at her. "Aww that's nice of you. And don't worry about it. I used to do that when I was a foal back then." He chuckles as he pats her head with his front hoof as he walks off with the package, thus enlightening his mood before resuming to work on his teleportation machine.

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Fluttershy left quietly, glad to have patched things up with the strange pony, and made her way out of the dark alleyway. As she forged her path, paranoia gripped her once again, and by the time she was halfway across, she was shaking nervously, convinced that there was ghost lurking in every shadow.

 

As she was just about to find her way out, a sinishter shape loomed over her, and Fluttershy's nerve broke. Screaming loudly, she dashed out of the alleyway and rushed her way past the confused Canterlot crowd.

 

The shape watched her flee, nonplussed. "Much easier than I thought," it commented darkly, as it began making its way towards Techie's house.

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Inside, Techie heard the screams, as he looks left and right. "...weird." Techie commented with confusion. He manages to get the teleportation on full power before shutting it off. he chuckles with determination. "I'm sure to ace this exam! Celestia would never let me down at all!" Techie jumps with excitement as he prepares to disassemble and take it to college for everypony to see his science project.

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The shape calmly walked along the alleyway, Rip Tide's book hanging on a pouch. It stopped just outside of his door, and stopped, tilting its head as thought waiting for something.

 

"Here we go." Pressing its hoof against the knob, the shape swiftly caused the knob to freeze, sending icy tendrils all the way across the door and turning it a chilly blue color. Inside the room, the temperature dropped ten degrees. Swiftly, the shape drew out a sharp gladius out of its scabbard with a metallic [racism 3], and buried it six inches into the frozen wood, before giving a might upwards wrench, splintering the door in half.

 

Calmly sheathing its sword, the shape walked inside, and pointed at Techie.

"You," it said calmly. "Boot up that machine."

Edited September 1, 2012 by Aureity

[Jon the VGNerd 886]

Techie suddenly notices the sword pointed directly in front of him, leaving him in a state of shock before noticing the book he has lent to Rip Tide. "Is that my book?!" Techie thought before having no choice but to be forced to re-assemble the parts of the teleportation machine before activating it, despite being completely nervous, considering as how his magic do not contain combat abilities to ward off the shadowy figure.

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"Very good," the figure said coldly. "Now...I want you to take me to Vehicula, the place mentioned in this handy little book of yours." He waved the book under Techie's nose, savoring a moment of triumph. "Do this for me, and I'll leave you in peace. Fail to do this...and I'll leave you in pieces." His sword twitched slightly as if to emphasize his point. "No trickery, boy. I can smell deceit from a mile away."

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Techie's eyes shifted nervously after he has reactivated his teleportation machine. "Wh-What about Vehiculia?" Techie nervously asked before shaking his head from asking the mysterious figure. "E-Either way..." he paused, trying to keep himself calm, knowing that he was held hostage and knowing that he needs to follow his orders for the sake of his life. "Err, n-never mind my question, f-follow me." He leads the mysterious figure inside the portal, as it creates light speed for both Techie and the unnamed figure before the two arrives in an alternate dimension of Equestria, known as Vehiculia; the dimension looks completely similar to Equestria, but with modern, futuristic buildings, functioning wind farms, asphalt roads that substitute the soft mound terrain and, more notable, machines that drive by normally onto the streets, bearing cutie marks that are the same as normal ponies in Equestria.

 

Techie gulps, still trying to keep himself calm despite being held captive by the unnamed figure. "H-Here we are; the alternate dimension of Equestria."